41 percent of 2013 and 2014 graduates earn less than $25,000
, 64 percent are working in their chosen field, and 64 percent feel their education prepared them well for the workforce.
The stats reflect very neatly the breakdown among students that I observe: about 60% work hard and love learning while about 40% beg for grades, ask “Will this be on the test?”, and believe that college should be about constant reinforcement of their awesomeness.
So students who show initiative and work carry those same habits over to their job searches. That makes sense.
OT or why petty bureaucrats shouldn’t be advisors: <a href=”http://chronicle.com/blogs/ticker/kennesaw-state-responds-to-video-of-adviser-threatening-to-call-police-on-black-student/98893>Kennesaw State Responds to Video of Adviser Threatening to Call Police on Black Student
This idiot has a master’s degree and I’ve never seen any advisor act that way at any of the institutions I’ve gone to. I’m personally offended this stupid lazy racist woman has a job with benefits.
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Kennesaw State Responds to Video of Adviser Threatening to Call Police on Black Student
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Advisement is being taken from the hands of faculty members and handed over to these very often weird and unprofessional bureaucrats. It’s a total disaster because they have no idea what they are doing, get very sulky when asked to do any actual work, drain the university’s resources, and make an enormous number of mistakes in their work that the faculty members then have to untangle.
Yesterday, I had a group of students over at my house, and several of them will not be able to graduate on time because these stupid “professional advisers” have no idea how to read a transcript. The advisers are a constant aggravation, and I’m not in the least surprised to see how this one acted.
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I agree with the “stupid and lazy” part but I don’t see any racism here. How do you know she doesn’t treat all students this way irrespective of their race?
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Who knows what was in this weirdo’s head? One thing is for certain, though: this is not an acceptable way of engaging with people in the workplace.
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How do you know she doesn’t treat all students this way irrespective of their race?
I don’t need to know with 100% certainty as you seem to require; it’s a reasonable assumption.
She’s a white woman on a majority white campus working in advisement offices that have waiting rooms specifically set up for the purpose. Kennesaw is 64.6 % white, so if she actually behaved that way towards everyone, she would have not been able to do her job at all. She is escalating a situation by calling normal behavior “harassment” and threatening a student(calling security) with possible arrest for the offense of waiting for an advisor. Her behavior, on its face, is irrational. I don’t see a better explanation, and none has been forthcoming, for her behavior.
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